# A Close Run Thing

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- Book: [A Close Run Thing](https://www.bookquiver.com/allan-mallinson/a-close-run-thing) ([A Close Run Thing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/allan-mallinson/a-close-run-thing.md))
- Authors: [Allan Mallinson](https://www.bookquiver.com/allan-mallinson)
- Publisher: bantam
- ISBN: 978-05-5338-043-9
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2000-08-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the tradition of Patrick O'Brian's beloved historical military adventures comes the first in a dashing new series featuring Cornet Matthew Hervey, a young cavalry officer in Wellington's army of 1815. ...